Mark Selby v Stuart Bingham live stream: World Snooker Championship Semi-Final 2021 preview
Bingham and Selby collide in Sheffield (credit:World Snooker)
Stuart Bingham faces his toughest test yet in his bid to become the third qualifier to be crowned World Champion when he meets Mark Selby in the Semi-Finals.
The 2015 World Champion is back in the last four of the sport’s blue-riband event for the first time since lifting the trophy six years ago.
Should he go on to do the same this year, he would become the third qualifier – after Terry Griffiths in 1979 and Shaun Murphy in 2005 – to triumph at The Crucible.
Bingham has certainly earned the right to return to the one-table set-up in Sheffield.
A 13-6 win over Jamie Jones in round two was sandwiched by deciding-frame victories against Ding Junhui and Anthony McGill – making a timely century in both.
‘Ballrun’ recovered from 10-7 down to lead 12-10 in his epic quarter-final with McGill.
And although the Scotsman pegged him back to 12-12, the 44-year-old demonstrated tremendous bottle in the decider with a break of 125 – his 10th century – to scrape over the line.
Bingham was a 2-0 winner over Selby in the inaugural Pro Series last month, but this will be the first meeting between the players over a longer distance.
The most frames they have previously contested is a best-of-17 at this stage of the 2016 International Championship semi-finals, which Selby won 9-3.
The Jester is back in familiar territory; this is his seventh Crucible semi-final – and second in succession – while he has triumphed in four of the previous six.
The three-time World champion, who was edged out 17-16 by Ronnie O’Sullivan last year, comprehensively swept Mark Williams aside with a session to spare in his quarter-final, running out a commanding 13-3 winner.
Selby has dropped just 11 frames en route to the semi-finals; a record he shares with Steve Davis (1989), Matthew Stevens (2001) and Williams (2003).
And the 37-year-old will be desperate to continue in a similar vein as he looks to move level with John Higgins on four World titles.
This eagerly anticipated encounter will be contested over four sessions; the first of which commences at 1pm BST on Thursday.
They will resume at 10am and 7pm on Friday, before playing to a close from 2.30pm the following day with the winner setting up a showdown with Kyren Wilson or Shaun Murphy in Sunday’s final.
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